If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel is the answer. It is superb SUNDAY TIMESA rare kind of literary celebrity VOGUEA hypnotic disappearing act OBSERVERThe new novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinning, Man Booker Prizeshortlisted author a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian cityThe woman moves through the city, her city, on her own.She moves along its bright pavements she passes over its bridges, through its shops and pools and bars. She slows her pace to watch a couple fighting, to take in the sight of an old woman in a waiting room pauses to drink her coffee in a shaded square.Sometimes her steps take her to her grieving mother, sealed off in her own solitude. Sometimes they take her to the station, where the trains can spirit her away for a short while.But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the suns vital heat, her perspective will change forever.A rare work of fiction, Whereabouts first written in Italian and then translated by the author herself brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement. A dazzling evocation of a city, its captures a woman standing on one of lifes thresholds, reflecting on what has been lost and facing, with equal hope and...

Binding: Paperback;176 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: FA; Weight: 244 g; Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 13

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